Yep.

Nord are based in Lithuania. Not sure if they have a shell company elsewhere (like most VPNs do).

There are some Icelandic ones too but I can’t remember the names off the top of my head.

I never played the original but loved other Bitmap Brothers games like Xenon and Speedball so definitely will give this a whirl. Thanks!

Good to know. Cheers.

First time I’ve come across the phrase but it sounds like the same thing. It’s gender neutral though I guess. Maybe that’s it?

The Jews in the Netherlands when the Nazis invaded would like a word.

All they did was put their religion on a census.

If you can’t imagine a world where your private life can be used against you, your imagination is shit tbh.

magnet

Absolute legend.

Absolutely LOVE this idea but I feel like a solid implementation would be a pain in the fanny (and it also requires other peers to be online). I dip in and out over the day myself but I don’t know what others use case is.

Also it is far less trustworthy and harder to block bad actors (V’s removing a known bad actor from a relatively small peer group).

It was my first thought too but there are downsides to it. Trust is a small one given the nature of the system but compute and bandwidth costs could be an issue also, especially for larger instances.

The first solution is more fragile but could be CDN’d and those are cheap.

Here is why I really, really love the indigenous people of North America:

Having endured the trail of tears and their own nation in tatters, the Choctaw nation sent the Irish people the modern equivalent of about $6000 during the great hunger (the potato famine). I genuinely consider it a true act of love among the poor and oppressed.

Picture above is a sculpture in County Cork to commemorate their incredible gesture.

Wikipedia link

We will never forget

Disk space it seems.

Get her to wear a white dress too.

Simply tell your colleagues you can’t attend the wedding. End of sentence. You don’t have to tell them why.

I verbally beat this phrase into my kids: “No” is a complete sentence.

Fuck giving people details unnecessarily IMO. Those close to you will already know why. Those not close don’t deserve to.

The energy usage is off the charts. I’ve spent time in data centres (a long time ago) and none of them at the time had massive water usage so I believe it’s only a very wasteful subset that are being dicks.

On the flip side, data centres are taking up a fifth of all electricity usage in the whole country where I live and fucking our carbon targets so people are pissed about it.

Thanks for taking the time. I must have read that five times before but it’s such a great story I’ll always take the time.

Oh cheers, I was waiting for the roll out but just grabbed it. Very nice. A huge upgrade.

It’s something that Marie Antoinette was accused of saying when French peasants were starving just before the French Revolution. Consensus is that she never actually did but it’s a good little anecdote for rich people being blissfully unaware of real life.

Current phone is just shy of 4 years old. I have no intention of changing it. I’ve been looking after the battery, trying to keep it in the 80% to 20% range with the occasional full charge so it’s still going strong.

Last one I got 5 years out of.

Big time. From that article:

“Ed Sheeran had an opportunity [to] show that we won’t be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.”

POW! Right in the kisser. Absolute BOSS lady.